William de Bereford

- Bef 1326

• Name	William de Bereford  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 20 Aug 1326  [3, 4]
  Person ID	I15166	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Walter de Bereford
  Family ID	F3714	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret de Plessis
  Children	+ 1. Margaret de Bereford   2. Agnes de Bereford   d. 18 Jul 1375
  Family ID	F9532	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. "Bereford is chiefly notable as the most formidable and cantankerous of that first generation of lay lawyers who moved from pleading to presiding in the king's courts, and whose personalities can be known through the reports of their legal arguments in the year-books. He claimed special authority in the interpretation of the great statutes of Edward I's reign, and in 1310 gave the famous judgment that an entail as provided in 1285 should last until the third heir entered. He died in harness before 20 August 1326, holding estates in eight counties, and leaving a son and heir, Edmund, said to be aged twenty-eight and more. In the following year this Edmund, 'a king's clerk', was given licence to crenellate his house at Langley." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S7051] G.S.S., "Pedigree of Mautravers." Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 4:334, 1840. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S1209] Outline of the History of the Argentein Family by Chris Phillips., year only.